Marina Tekhteleva

Soprano

Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist

• Prize-winner at the 2^nd City Competition for Classical Singing and Musical Performance (St Petersburg, 2021; Grand Prix)
• Prize-winner at the 1^st International Eurasian Festival The Great Silk Road. Dialogue of Cultures (St Petersburg, 2015; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 11^th International Music Competition Città di Pesaro (Italy, 2014; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4^th International B.T. Shtokolov Vocal Competition (St Petersburg, 2014; 3^rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 3^rd International Festival-Competition for Vocal and Theatre Arts Citrus voices (St Petersburg, 2013; 3^rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the International Festival-Competition Northern Venice (St Petersburg, 2013; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 7^th Moscow Open Festival of Classical Solo Singing Silver Voice (2011; 2^nd prize)

Marina Tekhteleva was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music in 2011 and went on to earn a master’s degree with honours from St Petersburg’s Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in 2017. Has attended masterclasses held by Elena Obraztsova, Natalie Dessay, Olga Makarina, Marina Shaguch, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, Erkki Lauri Alste and Johannes von Duisburg.

Since 2012 Marina Tekhteleva has been a soloist with the Zazerkalye St Petersburg State Children’s Music Theatre, performing the title role in Ilya Partas’ one-act opera The Little Mermaid, the parts of Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), the Nightingale (The Tale of the Nightingale, the Emperor and Death) and Alice (Alice Through the Looking-Glass) among others.

She made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2024, appearing in Pelléas et Mélisande.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
The Golden Cockerel (The Golden Cockerel)
The Flea (The Lefthander)
Arione (Giovanni Alberto Ristori’s Arianna)
Bastienne (Bastien und Bastienne)
Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro)
Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Jemmy (Rossini’s Guillaume Tell)
Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande)
Flora (The Turn of the Screw)
Tytania (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Information for October 2026